Dose-Response Boot Camp: Risk Assessment from 0 to 100 in Five Days! Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment (TERA) announces its Dose-Response Assessment Boot Camp, a new initiative that provides intensive, in-depth, hands-on training in hazard characterization and dose-response assessment for developing human health risk assessments. The week-long course with emphasis on dose response assessment will be based on the popular chemical risk assessment training sessions that TERA developed and has presented to various audiences in the past decade. The camp is designed to provide systematic training in current assessment practices and in the latest methods in human health chemical risk assessments. Boot Camp 2007 will be held October 22-26, 2007, in Cincinnati, Ohio. More detailed information is available at http://www.tera.org/training/bootcamp/bootcamp.htm. Direct additional questions regarding the camp to Patricia Nance, nance@tera.org or telephone 513-542-7475, ext. 25. (posted 7/3/07)

Ad Hoc Panel Nominations for VCCEP Peer Consultation on p-Dioxane. TERA anticipates scheduling a Voluntary Children's Chemical Evaluation Program (VCCEP) peer consultation meeting on p-dioxane (CAS No. 123-91-1) in the first half of 2007 and is accepting nominations for ad hoc panel members for this peer consultation. Nominees should have expertise in the relevant routes of dioxane's human exposure (oral, inhalation, or dermal), in its primary targets of toxicity (renal, hepatic, nasal tissues), in carcinogenicity, in physiologically based pharmacokinetic modeling, or in risk assessment. When nominating candidates, follow TERA’s panel nominations policy posted at http://www.tera.org/peer/VCCEP/VCCEPNomSelectPolicy.html, confirm that the nominee is willing to serve on the VCCEP panel, and include in the nomination letter a brief statement explaining how the nominee would benefit the overall peer consultation panel. The nomination period for ad hoc panel members for p-dioxane will close on Friday, March 2, 2007. Direct questions about this announcement or about the nominations procedure to Daniel W. Briggs, Ph.D., DABT; TERA, 2300 Montana Avenue, Suite 409, Cincinnati, OH 45211; telephone 513-542-7475, x21; fax 513-542-7487; e-mail briggs@tera.org. (posted 2/23/07)